Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
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Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.William Gilmore Simms
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
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